Patient Safety and Quality of Services Assignment, OM001, Semester 1

This assignment delves into the critical aspects of patient safety and quality of services within the healthcare sector. It begins by analyzing the key focuses, objectives, and differences between the Institute of Medicine (IOM) reports "To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System" and "Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century." The assignment explores the impact of these reports, identifying changes in healthcare directly attributable to their dissemination. Furthermore, it examines the IOM's six aims for improving healthcare quality and the subsequent advances made in delivering quality healthcare. The second part of the assignment shifts to the analysis of adverse events, focusing on a specific case of unintended retained foreign objects after surgery. It requires a description of the event, its effects, the systemic failures that enabled it, and the system changes implemented as a result. The student provides detailed responses, referencing scholarly sources to support the analysis.